A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

It takes a long time to grow young.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.